Vikentios is a tuba player, arranger and educator. He started studying music at the wind band ''Mantzaros'' and at the Concervatory of Corfu. He studied at the Academy for Music in Hannover with J. Björn-Larsen. He got his degree on February 2013. He has won first prizes in numerous major competitions for brass instruments such as the International Aeolus Competition in Düsseldorf and the prestigious International Instrumental Competition Markneukirchen. Apart from his work as a tuba player, Vikentios is also a prolific arranger of music for brass. His arrangements have been published and performed in Germany, Greece, Hungary, Austria, United Kingdom, Japan and USA. Vikentios has appeared as a soloist with the Folkwang chamber orchestra in Essen, the Göttingen symphony orchestra, the Düsseldorf symphony orchestra, among others.
Since 2013 Vikentios Gionanidis holds the tuba position at the German Opera Berlin (Deutsche Oper Berlin).